If a cookout or picnic is in the cards for you this weekend, today’s recipe for Italian Pasta Salad is the perfect dish to bring along. It’s adapted from “Food Gifts: 150+ Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents,” by America’s Test Kitchen and Elle Simone Scott, and it covers all the pasta salad bases.

It’s got pasta, of course, but also the great briny, pickley, rich things that make an antipasto platter sing: olives, pepperoncini, sun-dried tomatoes, salami, mozzarella, and a dressing full of capers and anchovies. No picnic in your future? Please still try this. It’s a handy dish to make over the weekend and enjoy throughout the week, and an ideal candidate to bring to work for lunch or to take with you on a hike, a prize waiting for you when you reach the top of the (proverbial or real) mountain.